Chapter 15 Test "A Divided Nation" REVIEW test
Answer the following questions
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1. The Wilmot Proviso spurred a debate that showed growing sectionalism, which refers to
a. taking advantage of loopholes in state and federal laws.
b. favoring the interests of a region over those of the country.
c. paying attention to just one part of a problem.
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2. How did the idea of popular sovereignty affect slavery in the United States?
a. Slavery would not be permitted in unofficial states.
b. States or territories would decide whether to permit slavery.
c. Slavery would not be permitted anywhere in the country.
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3. What was a consequence of the Compromise of 1850?
a. The balance between free and slave states ended in the Union.
b. The federal government was losing power over the states.
c. Economic benefits of the slave trade were destroyed in all parts of the nation.
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4. What was the position of South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun in the debate for the Compromise
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of 1850?
a. Slave states should separate peacefully from the Union.
b. Slavery should end in the nation’s capital.
c. The federal government should ban the slave trade.
Which of the following statements about the Fugitive Slave Act is true?
a. The law permitted fugitives to testify on their own behalf.
b. People who helped runaways often served as defense witnesses.
c. Commissioners benefited from returning slaves to slaveholders.
Why was the case of Anthony Burns significant?
a. It persuaded many to join the abolitionist cause.
b. It led to a harsher version of the Fugitive Slave Act.
c. It was the first case of a fugitive being declared free.
What did Harriet Beecher Stowe do to influence the debate over slavery?
a. pushed for the start of the Civil War
b. exposed the harsh reality of slave life
c. accused the federal government of obeying the southern states
Southern Democrats trusted Franklin Pierce to represent their party in the election of 1852 because
he
a. disagreed with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
b. believed that slavery should extend into the northern states.
c. promised to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.
Study the maps below and answer the question that follows.
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According to the maps, which of the following is true?
a. The number of slave states diminished between 1820 and 1850.
b. There were many new slave territories after the Compromise of 1850.
c. After 1850, the northwestern part of the nation was all free territories.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the
a. prohibition of the practice of slavery in the territories.
b. return of the slavery issue between the North and South.
c. reinforcement of ideas introduced in the Missouri Compromise.
Which of these was a result of the Pottawatomie Massacre?
a. Kansas’s citizens began a mass migration to northern states.
b. Kansas collapsed into a civil war and many citizens were killed.
c. Kansas’s government was no longer divided over the issue of slavery.
On the night of May 24, 1856, five pro-slavery men were killed in Kansas. What is this event called?
a. the Pottawatomie Massacre
b. Brown’s Raid
c. the Sack of Lawrence
Democrats nominated James Buchanan to run in the 1856 presidential election because he was
a. Stephen Douglas’s Vice President.
b. not involved in the Kansas-Nebraska debate.
c. politically inexperienced, but stood for slavery.
In 1854 the Republican Party rallied around the
a. enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.
b. spread of slavery in the West.
c. idea of popular sovereignty in U.S. territories.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford established that
a. slaves were not allowed to accuse slaveholders.
b. the Missouri Compromise’s restriction on slavery was unconstitutional.
c. establishing a residence on free soil makes a slave free.
____ 16. In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Abraham Lincoln accused Democrats of wanting to
a. overturn the Dred Scott decision.
b. spread slavery in the West.
c. reestablish slavery in the North.
____ 17. What did the Freeport Doctrine, proposed by Stephen Douglas, state?
a. The decision to practice slavery in the territories belonged to the people.
b. Slaves should be given the same rights as white citizens.
c. Slaves living in slave states should be given their freedom.
____ 18. In leading an armed resistance in Virginia in 1859 John Brown was attempting to
a. steal weapons and bring them to local slaves.
b. fight the work of antislavery supporters in Virginia.
c. control the slaves that had escaped in Virginia.
____ 19. Why was John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry a failure?
a. His supporters did not follow his plan.
b. He did not have enough supporters for his cause.
c. His men turned on him before the raid began.
____ 20. Study the chart below and answer the question that follows.
Lincoln
Douglas
Breckinridge
Bell
The Election of 1860
Electoral Vote
Popular Vote
180
1,865,593
12
1,382,713
72
848,536
39
592,906
% of Pop. Vote
39.8
29.5
18.1
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Which of the following statements about the election of 1860 is true?
a. John C. Breckenridge had the second most electoral votes and the second most
popular votes.
b. Senator Douglas was the least popular candidate.
c. Abraham Lincoln won both the electoral and the popular votes.
____ 21. Which statement best expresses the reason why the southern states decided to secede from the Union
after the election of 1860?
a. The southern economy and way of life would be destroyed.
b. Slaves would begin an uprising if the states did not secede.
c. Seceding from the Union would end the possibility of war.
____ 22. John Crittenden wanted to change this to preserve the Union.
a. the Constitution
c. the federal government
b. the Freeport Doctrine
Matching
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a. Pottawatomie Massacre
b. Stephen Douglas
c. Wilmot Proviso
d. Jefferson Davis
e. Stephen Douglas
f. Freeport Doctrine
g. Free-Soil Party
h. secession
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Mississippi native elected president of the Confederacy
violent response by abolitionists to the Sack of Lawrence
rebellion staged by a group of abolitionists at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
document that stated that slavery could not exist in any part of the Mexican Cession
U.S. senator from Illinois who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
act of formally withdrawing from the Union
idea that political power belongs to the people
political group formed by antislavery northerners who supported the Wilmot Proviso
31. Explain why Uncle Tom’s Cabin outraged the North. Give examples from the movie.
32. Make a timeline of major events found in THIS TEST starting with the Compromise of 1850 and ending
with shots fired at Fort Sumter in 1861.
THIS IS ALL DUE ON MONDAY!!!!!!!!!!